I've read another blogger, 木子美（Muzi Mei), a Chinese journalist who wrote about her sexual affairs and angered some confucian grandmas in the 90s. While in China, she was something like a hero to me-- because she started something of a sexual revolution that is still on-going in China's larger cities.
I printed out her picture and hung it on my cubicle at a progressive Chinese newspaper (not government-owned, thank you very much) where I was an intern. The ridicule I faced! Even as radical as my colleagues were, I found that they were still very conservative about sex.
To be fair, re-reading some of 木子美's works, I now realize that she was not as concerned with inspiring a culture of sexual openness as she was with being rich and famous. So what? If sexual revolution comes as a by-product of one woman's struggle to make a buck in a cut-throat economy, then fuck the moralists.
YES- FUCK the moralists. Fuck the moralists who have made my life more difficult. They are everywhere. Confucians in the East and religious zealots in the West. I cordially invite myself to shit on your culture and beliefs.
I suppose I'll never be able to say this in a newspaper... Maybe this blog will be about sex, and I'll make lots of money describing the lighting in my bedroom. Maybe this blog will be about how I fucking hate everyone with a dogma, a culture, or a cultivation.
M!
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